diff --git a/css-conditional-5/Overview.bs b/css-conditional-5/Overview.bs
index 302baedb7b3..b3fc1a21457 100644
--- a/css-conditional-5/Overview.bs
+++ b/css-conditional-5/Overview.bs
@@ -1581,9 +1581,9 @@ Container Relative Lengths: the ''cqw'', ''cqh'', ''cqi'', ''cqb'', ''cqmin'', '
 	</table>
 
 	For each element,
-	[=container query length=] units are evaluated
-	as [=container size queries=] on the relevant axis (or axes)
-	described by the unit.
+	[=container query length=] units are evaluated using the same
+	rules as [=container size queries=] when querying the size
+	on the relevant axis (or axes) described by the unit.
 	The [=query container=] for each axis
 	is the nearest ancestor container
 	that accepts [=container size queries=] on that axis.